The forking of the Indian rupee joni Juni 08, 2017 Add Comment demonetization, ECB, Reserve Bank of India Edit This post is about the dismantling of the rupee-zone between 1947-49, an historical event that is especially topical in light of two modern ... Read More
Shadow banks want in from the cold joni Maret 14, 2016 Add Comment Bank of Japan, ECB, money market mutual funds, required reserves Edit Remember when shadow banks regularly outcompeted stodgy banks because they could evade onerous regulatory requirements? Not any more. In neg... Read More
Euros without the Eurozone joni Juni 29, 2015 Add Comment dollarization/euroization, ECB, lender of last resort, Nick Rowe, seigniorage, Target2, unit of account Edit This 2 euro coin is issued by Monaco, which is not a member of the Eurozone Grexit isn't what people take it to be. The standard narrati... Read More
Plumbing the depths of the effective lower bound joni April 24, 2015 Add Comment Bank of Greece, cash, Danmarks Nationalbank, ECB, large value note embargo, SNB, Willem Buiter, zero lower bound Edit Unfathomable Depths by Ibai Acevedo Denmark's Nationalbank and the Swiss National Bank are the world's most interesting central ban... Read More
Hawk, Doves, and Canaries joni Maret 18, 2015 Add Comment cash, Danmarks Nationalbank, ECB, nominal interest rates, SNB, zero lower bound Edit Central bankers are usually classified as either hawks or doves. This post is devoted to a third and rare breed; today's monetary policy... Read More
Grexit: An Escape to More of the Same joni Januari 24, 2015 Add Comment Bank of Greece, dollarization/euroization, drachma, ECB, Hans-Werner Sinn, hysteresis, medium of exchange, store of value, unit of account Edit The upcoming Greek election has renewed interest in the idea of Grexit. This option is often presented to the Greek public as desirable give... Read More
Draghi's fake zero-lower bound and those pesky €500 notes joni September 06, 2014 Add Comment cash, ECB, nominal interest rates, zero lower bound Edit Having reduced the ECB's overnight target rate to +0.05% and the deposit rate to -0.2%, Mario Draghi confidently told those assembled at... Read More
Financial Plumbing: Europe and the Fed's Interdistrict Settlement Account joni Mei 31, 2014 Add Comment Barry Eichengreen, clearing and settlement, ECB, Federal Reserve, Hans-Werner Sinn, interdistrict settlement, intra-Eurosystem credit, NCB Edit One of this blog's most recurrently popular posts is a 2012 ditty entitled the Idiot's Guide to the Federal Reserve Interdistrict Se... Read More